and nasty murders twenty six children under the age of by. that traumatizes an entire nation we are traumatized nation there are people you have c.n.n. you left all the networks covering you saying for the next two dates back to that we had her is is we need to get real people on nice television to talk about renewable weights found at this problem the way to combat this problem we have over and over and over people talking about taking the money out of this gun issue we need to talk about safety safety equipment that can go with every one of our guns just safety equipment alone i am sure one hundred percent and if you have five minutes six semiautomatic weapons you should have to pay insurance for it just like if you have it jaguar you can have a lot of insurance if you have a serious if you have a little six shooter you're going to pay zero insurance or

a little insurance why don't you have insurance why don't you regulate our cars more than we regulate these weapons of mass destruction in our own community that's what i don't understand you don't even need a license to own one of these things you don't need to be checked out if you want people you want people driving around on your streets and never taking a driver's test never once tested out there then you know they are big data should it be required to go to school then you'll be able to weed out those equal that are that have mental illness or do you give them a quick mental illness test right there when they're registering for their gun they'll have to go they'll have this board wait weeks so i don't have to go and get checked out i'm going to stick with you know it's just like in a car or if someone has a physical ailment they don't get their license if you know where they have glasses to go and you go to the drive started. well since they're not going to the crime

stats indeed that's why do we not treat gun the way we treat anything else kill will quickly easily and pretty much without. anyone do indeed you bring up some very good points there tighe barry from the activist group code pink it's been very interesting and informative to talk to you this hour thanks for being with us here on r t international thank you for having. let's take a look at the history of u.s. school shootings there have been two hundred seventy five incidents since two thousand and thirteen with an average of nearly one week and there have already been eighteen shootings in schools so far this year here's a look at some of the most serious cases in the last decade.

i there are now reports from police that at least seventeen people have been killed in a shooting at the florida high school twelve of the deceased victims were found inside the building while two were found just outside and one in the street nearby two more died of their wounds at the hospital earlier reports were that about fourteen to twenty people were injured scores of injured have been hospitalized at this point in time and reportedly three of them are in critical condition the school is marjory stoneman douglas high in parkland florida the area that is known actually

for its low crime rates police have detained the suspected gunman and identified him as nicholas cruz he is a nineteen year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons. we also spoke to gino luden who's a political analyst and psychology expert who said people who commit such crimes tend to be socially isolated. loner thing is a big one we find out almost all the time that this person is a loner that they don't have a lot of friends that they tend to isolate themselves very intentionally and you know for parents and for schools alike that's always a warning sign. you know will tend to find that some of these people have given some science once in a while though we get somebody who there have been no science nobody could see anything the child was relatively social so again you can't across the board draw

any real conclusions on the type of person that's going to do this but it looks like what we know with this particular student right now it also sounds like he knew the his way around the school which means additional deaths unfortunately because he knows how to get in and get out of the school obviously he knew it was a gun free zone so there weren't going to be guns protecting the students there that makes schools a rich target for a crazed killer like this where we now have video showing the swat team as it evacuated students from their classroom take a look. ok. and you can see there are people with their hands up which is a standard procedure as police enter room to make sure that no one else is armed and you can also see some of the students visibly shaken as the police entered that

room obviously under harrowing circumstances now earlier we discussed the issue of gun politics in the u.s. with dave lindorff founding editor of the online outlet this can't be happening and dominic is oh a former police officer here's what they had to say. so over three hundred million guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun. and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any licensing. and a lot of states now you can carry them. undercover legally there's a lot of nuttiness in this country about how guns make you safer. and the evidence is all to the contrary when the guns are so readily available we get these shootings every week but if we can't get rid of them after the sandy hook massacre of all those first graders i don't think we're ever going to get rid of them this

is an ultimate cry for attention and i'd like to see the media for the first time not look at this is a gun issue and to shy away from the anatomy object or start to start to look away from why or how these individuals are getting the guns and start looking at the intent behind it why are they doing this what's the mental health of this person what's their personal individual issue if there's one thing that we do know it's been proven time and time again that the gun itself does not do any damage but the issue is the person behind it their intent their motives their means we have to start looking at accountability of the human being and make this an issue. more focused towards them in mental health i don't know one sane one healthy one compassionate human being on the planet who takes such a massive cry for attention that they have to take a life or several lives of others this is got to stop being a gun issue this has to start being a mental health and human issue well in the immediate aftermath of this shooting

lots of calls for thoughts and prayers will be going out from politicians and people around the globe and around the united states but also calls for action as well will be keeping you updated you're watching r t international stay with us. everybody i'm stephen. this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. with all the drama happening in our country. every day. to bridge that gap this is the

great american. time after time they were going underground as former exxon boss and u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson today in kuwait reportedly announces the end of reconstruction to iraq where one in five u.k. u.s. coalition air strikes allegedly resulted in

a civilian death coming up in the show is moscow really going to kill thousands of british subjects is to raise a maze defense secretary suggest we ask the russian ambassador to the u.k. about his country's plans to use syria breaks it down trying to destroy british society plus i'll be talking about violence oxfam should george soros intervene in the parks it debate and a sensationalist new book about germany called it civil war coming up in today's going underground but first whatever you think of yesterday's court decision in london new light has been shed on the case against julian assange one of the usas most wanted whistleblowers or if you believe the boss of the cia an individual threatening the lives of three hundred twenty three million people it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia some might argue that isn't just publishing of cables has contributed to

international security by revealing nato war crimes but that belief appears not to be shared by the british crown prosecution service which decides on court action in the name of the queen fighting discredited rape allegations a son as has not until this week been able to determine just how politicized his case is been because the c.b.s. allegedly destroyed information british prosecutors have reportedly admitted deleting e-mail exchanges with the swedish counterparts we got in the case of the. it expanded julian assange style this happened back in two thousand and fourteen but was it twenty fourteen now confidential e-mails show that swedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against julian assange much earlier and who is the boss of the c.b.s. in twenty thirteen none other than jeremy corbin's current shadow breck's at secretary starmer here he is talking generally about his role in extradition one in a scientist case which seems more and more to be arguably political we don't use.

these two functions a maritime discipline house or legal it comprehends says was his file. here's the official request here's the full monty we would like you to conduct the extradition proceedings on our behalf with. the police. but we can't use a republic in this. part of. the ante to see whether they were not prosecuted this is really because when that man corbin's current shadow directorate secretary was in charge e-mails apparently showed that the country in question sweden was eager to drop the case later even discredited by the un not only that but a lawyer working for care stoma urge sweden don't you dare get cold feet and arguably even more damning for k.s. garma it is simply amazing how much work this case is generating it sometimes seems like an industry please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition assad would certainly maintain this was not just another extradition in

fact for him this whole thing is a smokescreen for the usa to destroy we keep leaks because of war crime revelations to which side with star on lifelong critic of us foreign policy jeremy corbyn may have now promoted him but in twenty sixteen kids storm assault to destroy german corbin's leadership of the labor party he resigned advising that corbin could not lead an effective opposition today he has the complex job of shadow rex it. well here starmer also voted against an investigation into the iraq war in britain fifteen years ago tomorrow saw its biggest ever demonstration against that labor government mandated war widely seen as illegal against that u.k. decision which to permanent u.n. security council members china and russia and the russian ambassador to britain joins me now ambassador thanks for coming on the show tourism is new defense secretary let's get straight to it gavin williamson says that your child getting

u.k. infrastructure threatening the lives of thousands of british subjects why are you doing that well we're not going to target the british infrastructure this is absolutely irresponsible statement of the minister of defense so everything what is happening to do most of the british media this is the time of the getting money for the budget for the military budget and that's why they might at least my explanation is that the minister of defense wants to put more money and that's why you have to show the threat so the most convenient threat of course is russia would trust our famous tweeter because you know we got so many responses to this statement and the people are not taking this seriously so do we what is their russian boats as the british media say which of course is being accused of in influencing our brakes a driver and a very good english language but i think this is the people because you know in most of the cases you know we see it when the the latest in the newspapers i'm

quite sure that in the newspapers you don't have boats ok some people might go to come across the russian embassy in london's account but more generally is there a cyber war being conducted from moscow against nato powers no and i'll tell you why because there are no facts and what is interesting of course you read a lot of things the newspapers but boris johnson was in moscow that was on the twenty second of december and. we discuss. this problem that was raised by love rove he said mr secretary you don't have any affects you joe we hear just the statements in the british press which are very let's say they're not proved by anything why don't we have the consultations between our specialists russian british and if you have any facts you know if you have something.